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A87672	A sermon preached before the Commissioners of both kingdomes, the same day they delivered the propositions to the Kings Maiesty, for a safe and well-grounded peace. / By Samuel Kem, Batchelour in Divinity.	Kem, Samuel, 1604-1670.	1646 (1646)	Wing K255; Thomason E346_14; ESTC R201011	22,136	38

we never feare the noise of a Fly as the humming of a Bee because it hath no sting So that this kind of duty though it cannot keep thee and me from dying by the Sword it will keep us from dropping into hell and it is a sweet mercy for the members of the Church with Stephen at their death to see heaven opened and to die with the sense of Gods love though of mans cruell malice 6. Motive Your paines in duty for the Church of God in misery what ever it be shall be rewarded to you and yours unto many generations this will intitle you to the most sure inheritance and lasting legacie you can leave behinde you The Lord never forgets a cup of cold water given to quench the Saints thirst in their necessity how much sooner will it be ingraven upon his heart the providing of cordiall precious portions for his languishing people yea God will provide a compensation for you and yours in all your afflictions Nay you shall treasure up praises for your selves and prayers for your surviving families in the ages that are to come and know this also that God hath riches enough in his Cabinet to make you amends for all you can do or suffer in this way Indeed I have beheld you with such alacrity noble courage expediting your motion endeavouring by all meanes night and day to find out him whom your souls love and long after for the Churches good that the quaere of the Church in the third of the Canticles and the third was to any whom it might concerne your first salute Can you tell us of His Majesty Yea I have seen so much of your unalterable and prepared patience digesting the vulgar curses and affronts as your diet and content with any thing that you might do the Church service that I shall ever blesse God that he yet accommodates the Church with such Friends and the King and Kingdoms with such Worthies who will venture through an host of enemies if possible to fetch water to refresh the Church of God therfore I will spare my self the labour by any more Motives to put you in mind to go on who are ready to run for the Churches and Kingdomes peace All therefore that now remaines is but to hold out to your view some other Observations that I had thought to have handled to complete your preparation for this dayes great Action but in regard you have Summons for the action and but a small parcell of time before you attend His Majesty that I may no way be prejudiciall to your private practice of this preparation or any other becoming so great a work I will briefly shew you the jewels they are ready command me to place them in your ears at your pleasure and my obedience shall eccho to your order You have heard 1 That Nationall and Personall preparation is necessary for the undertaking any great action for the Church Gather all the Jewes in Shushan I also c. 2. That Representative persons interposing for the Church in a strait deserve representative prayer Fast pray forme 3 Extraordinary and great duty is necessary for the Church in great misery Fast pray night and day eat nor drink c. The fourth you would have heard and I handled is this 4 That Messengers of such prayers are ever Messengers of praise they are thriving prospering Messengers 5 That all self must he denied that the Church may be saved We must not thinke of our selves and the Church at one time if we do we shall never go thorough stitch with the worke If I perish I perish let me assure you this if you save the Church you cannot lose your selves and if the Church perish juggle and Hocus Pocus it as nearely as you can your sleights will be found out and you cannot save your selves It is no time to feather our nests and build to lay our young when so many stroakes have been given at the root of the tree seek we great things for our selves for shame no more of it what do we painting our cabines when so many leakes in the ship first stop the leakes get out the water there is a time to trim this cabine afterward Lastly The means must be used although our ends are not obtained If we perish we perish For although God can deliver his Church without us yet his usuall method hath been to make choice of some Moses some Ioshuahs Gideons Davids c. for the preservation of his Church nay of Jesus Christ for the salvation of it And now give me leave to wind up all with the practice of that duty for you which I have in this Sermon commended to you Go and the Lord be with you yea the God of heaven blesse you and cause the Kings face to shine upon you and make you glad that he speak nothing but good unto you this day the Lord avert all whispering flattering D●egs this day and return you with a Message of hope at least if not of present help for these three bleeding Kingdomes yea the Lord make your interposing for the Church as prosperous as Abigails and let the Kings answer be as Davids 1 Sam. 25.31 33 34. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel which sent you this day to meet me and blessed be your advice and blessed be ye which have kept me this day from going on to shed any more of my Subjects innocent blood and from avenging my selfe with my own hand and that he may receive at your hands what you have brought him and say unto you Go up in peace to both my Houses of Parliament see I have hearkned to your voyces and accepted your persons give me but favour to add one word in prayer after the Apostles directory 2 Thes 3.16 Now the Lord of peace himselfe give you peace alwaies by all means yea now peace and let it be the Lords peace and the Lords free gift of peace let it be peace with him peace with our consciences peace one with another such a peace as all things may prosper with you yea that publike tranquillity and quiet in the Church may follow that it be not troubled with Schismes and Heresies within or without by persecuting Tyrants ruinating all by slaughters and cruell bloody warres O let every good heart pray for this peace for our Hierusalem that there may be tranquillity in the State and free from forraign and civill uncivill warres that in the peace thereof we may have peace that these distracted Kingdomes may be in security and void of dangers free from the noise of terrifying alarums and other dangers Yea the Lord give us such a peace that there may be an everlasting Covenant betwixt God and the King betwixt God the King and the people and let us and the whole Church of God heartily cry Amen Amen So be it And so the Lord be with you all to blesse you in the great worke of this day and all other your great imployments for his glory and the Churches good To whom with all our hearts be rendred and ascribed all Honour Glory Power and Praise now and evermore Amen FINIS

prove good for it to be so afflicted this is not the first plot intended against it for utter extirpation nor you the first messengers called forth by Providence to speak unto Majesty for its preservation cherish then and augment that courage that I seem to be seated in your aspects most noble Patriots although invironed with Enemies invellopt with difficulties to sense no probability to escape revilings nor possibility to return prevailing You have a sufficient call you have a good and all sufficient God a just Cause unjust Enemies many potent prayers all impotent curses a promise of a blessing a president of good successe in this Book put on resolution and use importunate prayer as a preparation so go in to the King if ye perish ye perish May it please you now as an Introduction to my Text to premise with me these particulars 1 The utter extirpation of the Church of God plotted and if you observe it this plot hath its rise from self ends Esther 3.5 6. When Haman saw Mordecai bowed not nor did him reverence then was he full of wrath he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole Kingdome 2. The Kings humour observed a decree for the execution demanded and an advance of monies promised Verse 8 9. And Human said to the King There is a certain people scatered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy Kingdome and their Laws are divers from all people neither keep they the Kings Law therefore it is not for the Kings profit to suffer them if it please the King let it be written that they be destroyed and I will pay ten thousand tal●nts of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the businesse to bring it into the Kings Treasuries 3. The request obtained Regina pecunia quid non and the manageing of the businesse solely to Haman committed Vers 11 12 13. And the King said to Haman the silver is given to thee and the people also to do with them as seemeth good to thee c. Then were all the kings Scribes called and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the Kings Lievtenants and to the Governours that were over every Province and to the Rulers of every People of every Province according to the writing thereof and to every people after their language in the name of the King was it written and sealed with the Kings Ring and the letters were sent by Posts into all the Kings Provinces to destroy and to kill and to cause to perish all the Iews both young and old little children and women in one day 4 The activity of the Churches Enemies for the speedy execution of this plot observed Vers 15. The Post went out being hastned by the Kings commandement 5. A double effect of this plot de●te●d the Court and Enemies of the Church are merry and their spirits elevated They sit down to drink The Church of God is perplexed Vers ●6 The City Shushan was perplexed 6. Mordecai's Personall sense of this misery he is more eminently affected Chap. 4. Vers 1. Perceiving what was done he rent his cloathes and put on sackcloath and ashes and went out into the City and cryed with a loud and bitter cry c. 7 The Nationall sense of this calamity Vers 3. And in every Province where the decree came there was great mourning and fasting and weeping and wailing and many lay in sackcloath and ashes 8. The plot to Esther discovered by her maids Vers 4. and by Mordicai confirmed Vers 7. 9 Some difficulties by sense proposed Vers 10 12. and by Mordecai answered Vers 13 14. and by her faith mastered she puts on an heroick resolution and returns Mordecai my Text for a concluding answer Go gather together all the Jews in Shushan and fast ye for me c. In the words you have The Messengers order for preparation Nationall and Personall for her good successe in undertaking that great action Go gather together In which preparation you have two particulars 1 The suitablenesse of the duty to the Churches difficulty or her prescribing them suitable duty to so great a difficulty The Church is in a great strait decreed to death a decree also that none shall dare to aproach the Kings presence uncalled much lesse to be a petitioner for life to reverse a decree Vers 11. 2 Proportionable duty Fast pray nay fast all pray one and all nay do this exactly strictly neither eat nor drink nay do it importunately ply the work ply it night and day The Action these two particulars 1 The Messengers sensiblenesse of the Churches misery and her own difficulty I also and my maidens will fast likewise She doth not put upon others what she will not practise her selfe nor trust to others duties alone as a meanes for her security no I also if the Church be in misery she will as a member put her self on exact duty 2 The Messengers subsequent independing heroick self-denying resolution So will I go in to the King If I perish I perish The words are without difficulty onely thus farre permit me that I may condescend to every mans capacity 1. The Jews were then the people of Gods love his heritage his dear friends against these is the decree sealed for death for these the pit is digged the net spread the sword sharpened these thus designed for death must fast and pray heartily for the Messengers acceptance as the onely probable means for their deliverance 2. In Shushan that was indeed the winter-Palace of the Kings of Persia but to it was adjoyned a City which was denominated so from it Why the Jews at the Court may think to escape as Mordecai intimates Verse 11. by the Kings favour they in the City to be secure as within Lines of Communication No all must to the work for the Churches deliverance 3. Fast ye for me Some read it Orate prome The Originall hath it Jejunate supra me Arm me with your prayers and Fasting against the strength of malice and power of a decree Jejunium pro suffragio apud summum Deum petit 4 So will I go in to the King Magna fiducia Reginae in jejunio monstratur magnaque charitas in vitam populi 5 If I perish I perish She submits to God imbracing her own death rather then daring to neglect the use of the means for the Churches safety as undervaluing trampling on and contemning that life that may out-live the prosperity of the Church of God There are streaming from these fountaines many eminent truths time and your weighty occasions prohibit me to adventure upon all I shall therefore at this present onely summon some of them to appear and passe them by with observation one I shall insist on for your present preparation unto the great work of this day First from the first branch of the order Go gather